Background
LITTLE, James Stanley Son of late Thomas Little, Woodville, Forest Hill, and Lilia, daughter of John E. Cockerell.
LITTLE, James Stanley Son of late Thomas Little, Woodville, Forest Hill, and Lilia, daughter of John E. Cockerell.
Privately; King’s College, London. Visited South Africa. Lectured in London and the provinces on South Africa and Imperial Federation.
Member of South African Committee and of Executive Council of Imperial Federation League. First Executive Secretary of Society of Authors, 1888-1890. Honourable Secretary ol Shelley Society, 1886-1887.
Organised, with J. J. Robinson, Shelley Centenary Celebration at Horsham, 1892. Edited African Review, 1895-1897, and 1901-1902. Has been associated since 1884 with the movement for the reform of the Royal Academy. Publica tions: A World Empire, 1879.
South Africa, 1884; What is Art? 1884. What the Boy Thought, 1884. My Royal Father, 1886.
The United States of Britain, 1887. The Day Ghost, 1887; Whose Wife Shall She Be? 1888. Doubt, 1888; A Vision of Empire, 1889.
The Wealden Painters, 1892. A Wealden Tragedy, 1894. The Life and Work of W. Q. Orchardson, R.A., 1897.
The Progress of the British Empire in the Century (Nineteenth Century Series), 1901. The Doom of Western Civilisation, 1907. Author of numerous articles in the reviews, magazines, and journals, and of several plays. Author and editor; writer on literature, the fine arts, and Imperial politics, and foreign correspondent.
Club : Authors’.
Spouse 1895, Fanny Maud Th£r£se, daughter of Luigi Lablache (Count L. F. de La Blache), g.-g.-d. of the operatic singer and musician.